Why is it that digital copies of games still take just as long as disc based games to load? This counts for loading the game at startup and elements of the area.

Question

Why is it that digital copies of games still take just as long as disc based games to load? This counts for loading the game at startup and elements of the area.

In: Technology

Answer 1

Games don’t run from the disc any more, they haven’t since the start of the Xbox One/PS4 gen. When you first put the disc in it copies the whole contents of it to the internal storage, after that it just checks the disc as a licence key then does everything from internal.